Volume 8 | Issue - 10
Volume 8 | Issue - 9
Volume 8 | Issue - 9
Volume 8 | Issue - 9
Volume 8 | Issue - 9
A correlational study on food habits and its health impacts among Nursing students at SRM College of Nursing, Kattankulathur. The objectives of the study were to assess the food habits of Nursing students in a selected college. To assess the health impacts of food habits among Nursing students. To correlate the health impacts and their food habits of Nursing students of selected college. To find out the association between food habits with their demographic variables. To find out the association between health impacts with their demographic variables. To determine the sample (N=150), The research approach used was quantitative research approach and the research design adopted was Correlational study design. The result revealed that majority of the Nursing students 99(66.0%) had poor food habits and 51 (34.0%) had good food habits and 148 (98.7%) had good health status, 2(1.3%) had poor health status. Correlation reveals that the mean score of food habit was 4.73 with standard deviation ± 1.80 and the mean score of health status was 0.09 with standard deviation ± 0.31. The calculated Karl Pearson’s Correlation value of r = 0.412 shows a positive correlation which was significant p < 0.001 and there is no statistically significant association between the level of food habits among Nursing students at p > 0.05 and there is statistically significant association between the level of health status with the demographic variables “Age p = 0.013” and “Course of study p = 0.021” at p < 0.05. While all other demographic variables such as gender, year of study, place of living, BMI were not having statistically significant association with level of health status among Nursing students.